Invasion of the Bee Girls

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Summary: A Great Bee Movie
Review: Anitra Ford stars as Dr. Susan Smith, an entomologist who has discovered a method for cross-pollinating women with bees. The process is very elaborate. A woman who is large-breasted and sexy is chosen to be their next inductee. She is lured into Dr. Smith's laboratory, a bee hive of activity as her assistants swarm about. Their latest victim is drugged, stripped naked and covered with a honey-like substance. She is then placed in a sealed chamber and zapped with radiation. Hundreds of bees are released in the chamber until they cover every inch of her body. A switch is thrown, the bees magically disappear, and the woman is removed from the chamber. The honey-like goop, which has hardened into a rubbery texture, is peeled off her body. Another switch is thrown and flashing lights swirl all around her. All of the women in the lab start exposing and fondling their breasts. Anitra Ford goes up to the naked inductee and plants a big, wet kiss on her. The woman then opens her eyes, which have become pitch black. She has been transformed into a lethal honey - a bee girl!

The bee girl's sole purpose in life is to mate with every available male. However, their sting is deadly. Every man who makes love to one dies of a massive heart attack after climaxing. Why Dr. Smith has created this race of mutant bee girls, and what their ultimate purpose is, remains a mystery. I found watching beautiful, buxom women making love to overweight middle-aged men to be entertaining enough for me, without searching for a deeper meaning. Too bad government agent Neil Agar, the original cigarette-smoking man, has to investigate the mysterious deaths and ruin all the fun. Sure, several men died, but at least they died happy! This film has the class to have "Also Sprach Zarathustra" play as the end credits roll. I hope they release this movie on DVD soon, before I break out in hives. Like "The Sting," it's a honey of a movie!

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Summary: Well, Smother Me In Marshmallow Cream!
Review: INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS (aka: Graveyard Tramps) is one of my favorite movies of all time! Yes, horrible / beautiful Bee Girls are attempting to take control of earth by seducing, mating with, and killing the poor males of our species! They are also recruiting human females to increase their horrid numbers! Beware! They wear big sunglasses and cover future members (gorgeous naked women, of course) in white, creamy, bee-goo! You could be next! On second thought, no, I'll be next. I hereby volunteer to save you by sacrificing myself to these nasty insectile ladies. If you don't own this film, how will you ever defend yourself against their onslaught?? Buy it now, for safety's sake...

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Summary: Well, Smother Me In Marshmallow Cream!
Review: INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS is one of my favorite movies of all time! Yes, horrible / beautiful Bee Girls are attempting to take control of earth by seducing, mating with, and killing the poor males of our species! They are also recruiting human females to increase their horrid numbers! Beware! They wear big sunglasses and cover future members (gorgeous naked women, of course) in white, creamy, bee-goo! You could be next! On second thought, no, I'll be next. I hereby volunteer to save you by sacrificing myself to these nasty insectile ladies. If you don't own this film, how will you ever defend yourself against their onslaught?? Buy it now, for safety's sake...

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Summary: Campy and Weird
Review: Rates right down there with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes--well, not quite, but close. Definitely worth watching with a buddy when you want a good laugh. Different, definitely a 70's movie, from the bushy hair and Burt Bacharach type soundtrack to the miniskirts and large eyeglasses. A real sexploitation film, of course, with lots of gratuitous nakedness and sex, a lot of which doesn't have anything to to with the plot.

Nice campy features like good looking women dressed in nothing but dark sunglasses and lab coats. Lots of breasts -- LOTS OF BREASTS, mostly big ones. But a lot of probably unintentional humor--like the best way for a man to die, in the Chinese tradition, by being balled to death. Use of the word "ball" is definitely 70s.

But "Graveyard Tramps!" Gotta be the worst misnomer in history. Not at all--NOT AT ALL --- NOT AT ALL like the movie.

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Summary: Sexual sirens in stinging sexy sci-fi
Review: Sec'y State- Security: Attn: Investigation
Obit: John Grubowsky, Brandt Research
Peckham, CA., 52-XYE, Dept. MD
Bacteriology, Clearance: Top Scret
Cause of Death: Undetermined
Investigate. Supvision Sec'y State
End of Message.

The above message sends Neil Agar, a Special State Investigator, because of top secret research done at the Brandt Research Center. However, eight men die in three days, all with the same symptoms, coronary thrombosis induced by sexual intercourse nearby. When that last is mentioned at a meeting, the residents snicker. Agar works with Captain Peters, the local police chief, and Grubowsky's assistant and presumably last person to see him alive, the bookish and too serious Julie Zorn. Presumably is right, as later, Ms. Grubowsky gets a call from the last person to see her husband alive.

All the deaths are men, and there is no occupational correlation. However, it's a remark by Peters on the victims that plants a seed in Agar's mind: "They're dropping like flies." The tension felt among Peckham's residents boil up to an attempted rape.

One scene in particular turns from idyllic to shocking. A naked girl alights from a motorcycle and goes to a guy waiting for her. The couple slowly roll down the hill. A loud buzzing sound meshed with a weird keyboard synthesizer rises to a crescendo. The guy's dead body is revealed, a sickly white colour, his mouth gaping open. A dramatic chord then sounds on cue, as it does with each corpse revealed.

The sexiest scene hands down has to be the transformation of a woman into a Bee Girl. And the sight of Bee Girls dressed in nothing but shades and lab coats, some of them partially open, bare legs on display, as well as the siren-like female chorus on the soundtrack make this a scene worth remembering.

William Smith plays Agar with self-assured confidence and competence. Victoria Vetri (Julie Zorn) was 1968's Playmate of the Year, then named Angela Dorian, and is clearly capitalizing on that accolade. I remember her in only one other film, Hammer's campy caveman romp, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth.

The sultry, long and dark-haired, dark-eyed Anitra Ford (Susan Harris), possessing some really long stems and the sexiest scene in the movie, is one of the film's assets. She also appeared in The Big Bird Cage. The Bee Girl with short reddish-brown hair I recognized as Rene Bond, the queen of many underground sexploitation films of the late 60's and early 70's. The sunglasses hide her eyes but those chipmunk cheeks of hers are recognizable.

Despite its low-budget feel and slow moments inbetween deaths, it's an interesting look at the male reaction to the times.
The concept of a feminist plot to take over the world is ridiculous, but consider. The Roe v. Wade ruling came out, the move to push the ERA was in full swing, as was the feminist movement. The idea of swinging and extramarital trysts is supported here. Other chauvinistic overtones include Agar's initial brusque exchange with Julie, Dr. Herb Kline's lies to his wife of having extra work when actually he is having dinner and an affair with a co-worker, and Kline's remarks to Agar, "Domestic bliss. They gotta know where you are every second."

Rating:
Summary: Sexual sirens in stinging sexy sci-fi
Review: Sec'y State- Security: Attn: Investigation
Obit: John Grubowsky, Brandt Research
Peckham, CA., 52-XYE, Dept. MD
Bacteriology, Clearance: Top Scret
Cause of Death: Undetermined
Investigate. Supvision Sec'y State
End of Message.

The above message sends Neil Agar, a Special State Investigator, because of top secret research done at the Brandt Research Center. However, eight men die in three days, all with the same symptoms, coronary thrombosis induced by sexual intercourse nearby. When that last is mentioned at a meeting, the residents snicker. Agar works with Captain Peters, the local police chief, and Grubowsky's assistant and presumably last person to see him alive, the bookish and too serious Julie Zorn. Presumably is right, as later, Ms. Grubowsky gets a call from the last person to see her husband alive.

All the deaths are men, and there is no occupational correlation. However, it's a remark by Peters on the victims that plants a seed in Agar's mind: "They're dropping like flies." The tension felt among Peckham's residents boil up to an attempted rape.

One scene in particular turns from idyllic to shocking. A naked girl alights from a motorcycle and goes to a guy waiting for her. The couple slowly roll down the hill. A loud buzzing sound meshed with a weird keyboard synthesizer rises to a crescendo. The guy's dead body is revealed, a sickly white colour, his mouth gaping open. A dramatic chord then sounds on cue, as it does with each corpse revealed.

The sexiest scene hands down has to be the transformation of a woman into a Bee Girl. And the sight of Bee Girls dressed in nothing but shades and lab coats, some of them partially open, bare legs on display, as well as the siren-like female chorus on the soundtrack make this a scene worth remembering.

William Smith plays Agar with self-assured confidence and competence. Victoria Vetri (Julie Zorn) was 1968's Playmate of the Year, then named Angela Dorian, and is clearly capitalizing on that accolade. I remember her in only one other film, Hammer's campy caveman romp, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth.

The sultry, long and dark-haired, dark-eyed Anitra Ford (Susan Harris), possessing some really long stems and the sexiest scene in the movie, is one of the film's assets. She also appeared in The Big Bird Cage. The Bee Girl with short reddish-brown hair I recognized as Rene Bond, the queen of many underground sexploitation films of the late 60's and early 70's. The sunglasses hide her eyes but those chipmunk cheeks of hers are recognizable.

Despite its low-budget feel and slow moments inbetween deaths, it's an interesting look at the male reaction to the times.
The concept of a feminist plot to take over the world is ridiculous, but consider. The Roe v. Wade ruling came out, the move to push the ERA was in full swing, as was the feminist movement. The idea of swinging and extramarital trysts is supported here. Other chauvinistic overtones include Agar's initial brusque exchange with Julie, Dr. Herb Kline's lies to his wife of having extra work when actually he is having dinner and an affair with a co-worker, and Kline's remarks to Agar, "Domestic bliss. They gotta know where you are every second."

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Summary: a weird film
Review: This is a movie that could`ve only been made in the 70s.Its a weird movie,but has some tasteful nudity and a slow sensuous eroticism.Some attractive ladies with nice breasts in this flick.

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Summary: Ah, the '70s...
Review: This is another one of those movies us kids used to watch all the time on local TV stations, late on a Sunday afternoon when we should've been playing "Kick The Can" or something. It's a horror movie of the sort that only could've been made in the '70s. And the sort of movie that wouldn't get shown locally today in the middle of the afternoon (even edited, defocussed, or whatever other tricks are used to hide nudity). But hey, it was the '70s.

William Smith plays the affable government agent come to town to investigate the not terribly mysterious death of a research scientist. Turns out the scientist died "in flagrante delicto", if-you-know-what-I-mean-and-I-think-you-do*. Well, nobody thinks too much of this until men start dropping like (sorry) flies and the only clue is a strange buzzing sound. Hmmm.

The actual "deduction" process isn't exactly the airtight sort of reasoning you'll find in screenwriter Meyer's later works like "The Seven Percent Solution" or "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", but then that's not really the point is it?

The point is to watch various men die fitting deaths at the hands of the bee girls and to see the climactic (though never adequately explained) transformation of ordinary (though extraordinarily fit and buxom) housewives into mutant queen bees. (The transformation process is pretty elaborate, too.)

Anitra Ford, a model who didn't do much acting after this, plays the damsel/scientist in distress. Of interest to Ed Wood fans may be the (brief) appearance of Rene Bond, star of Ed Wood's Necromania.

The film doesn't take itself to seriously, which lends it considerable camp value 25+ years later.

*With apologies to Joe Bob Briggs

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Summary: Definitely a drive-in make-out movie
Review: This is the kind of movie that always got lower-billing when double-features used to play at the local drive-in...back when there were double-features and drive-ins (*sigh*). Teenagers would usually watch the first movie and then make-out during the second, which usually wasn't worth watching anyway. This movie, however, is a bit of an exception. As far as I know, it is the only movie William Smith was the lead in (he's the kind of bit actor whose face everyone knows, but not his name). The movie is campy, and because of that, really pretty funny. It fits Joe Bob Briggs' description of a good movie-- "blood, beasts, and breasts." It's not bad enough to be a cult movie or on MST 2000, but it's good enough to see. Once, at least.